Alien, the seeds of horror returns
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Alien, the seeds of horror returns |
| Original title | Alien 2 - Sulla terra |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK SPIO / JK |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ciro Ippolito |
| script | Ciro Ippolito |
| production | Ciro Ippolito |
| music | Guido & Maurizio De Angelis |
| camera | Silvio Fraschetti |
| cut | Carlo Broglio |
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Alien, the seeds of horror (original title: Alien 2 - Sulla terra ) is an Italian science fiction / horror film from 1980. Ciro Ippolito was directed under the pseudonym Sam Cromwell . The film was marketed internationally as the successor to the film Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world . It is not an official successor to the original by Ridley Scott . The film opened in German cinemas on March 19, 1982.
action
A NASA space capsule is scheduled to land off San Diego in the Pacific . The cave scientist Thelma Joyce collapses during the transmission of landing in the television studio. She suspects that something threatening must have happened. It turns out that the space capsule landed without its crew. Wild guesses arise as to what might have happened to the crew.
The next day, Thelma and her colleagues set out to visit a previously unexplored cave. Burt finds an unusual blue stone and takes it with her. In the cave, the group descends 400 meters. Here the research group is investigating an underground river bed. The strange blue stone suddenly bursts open and jumps in Maurine's face. The group tries to rescue Maurine. However, Burt is also killed by a creature that slips from Maurine's face. The rest of the group is now trapped in the depths and splits up to look for an escape route to the surface of the earth. Thelma's telepathic powers give her an inkling that something terrible is looking for the group. She tries with her strength to warn individual members of the group. Little by little the alien beings kill the scattered members of the group. Thelma and Roy are the only ones to survive and make it to the surface of the earth. You arrive in the deserted San Diego. This is where Roy is finally killed by the aliens. Thelma manages to escape from the aliens. However, she is the last person left in San Diego. Everyone else was killed by the aliens. At the end the text ora può colpire anche te (now it can also apply to you) is displayed.
useful information
- The scenes in the cave were filmed in the Grotte di Castellana in the province of Bari in Apulia .
- The 2005 film The Descent is said to have several similarities. Ciro Ippolito has therefore been trying to take legal action against the alleged plagiarism for some time.
- The film distributor 20th Century Fox had tried several times to prevent the international distribution of the film. However, Ippolito managed to win all of the lawsuits after the surfacing of a 1930s novel called Alien .
- The production costs were 400,000,000 Italian lire (approx. 200,000 euros).
- The film was a huge commercial success in Italy and was able to gross.
- The idea for the film is said to have come to Ippolito in view of an oversized film poster for Zombi 2 by Lucio Fulci .
- Originally Mario Bava was supposed to direct. But since this was prevented, Ciro Ippolito took over the direction himself.
- In addition to the unabridged SPIO / JK version, a shortened FSK 16 version was published.
- The film was unindexed in May 2017. A re-examination of the FSK is still pending.
Reviews
"Cheap ripper that mixes plot motifs from other genre films with nauseating effects."
“When Ridley Scott filmed his $ 10 million hit ALIEN in 1978, he would never have dreamed that the first nominal sequel would take place in a stalactite cave, of all places! The never-ending inventiveness of Italian exploitation specialists had already led to many a stroke of genius when it came to masking a lack of budget with chutzpah and daring - Sam Cromwell's ALIEN 2 SULLA TERRA elevates these virtues to Olympian daring! "
“This Italian film came out in the early 80s and wanted to swim with the success of the alien film. So it was also marketed as the second part of the Hollywood film. However, it is a more than cheap production, which you can see this every second. Be it the 'actors' (a very young Michele Soavi also plays), the story, the equipment and the bloody, but easy-to-see splatter effects. However, all of this makes the film an unforgettable experience for the inclined viewer, although boredom sets in from time to time. "
Web links
- Alien Terror in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alien, the seeds of horror return. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.buio-omega.de/MOVIES/1999/Alien.htm "ALIEN - THE SEED OF GRAY RETURNS" by Christian Keßler for the cinema series "Buio Omega"
- ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=587632